Swalwell implosion smells like material for an internal Democrat civil war

 by Monica Showalter

Taking a page from their very successful Cesar Chavez playbook, Democrats have effectively taken Eric Swalwell out of the race for California governor based on a cavalcade of sudden sexual harassment and predation allegations, everything from his sending pictures of his privates to unwilling interns, to rape allegations by female staffers who were intoxicated and incapable of giving consent, along with video of the married Swalwell being 'serviced' by hookers in his home. Swalwell also reportedly retaliated against those who complained, threatening and firing them from their jobs and up until now getting away with it. Democrats knew about this for years, but only now has the Cesar Chavez hammer come out of the woodwork to dislodge him the race.

Oh, sure, Swalwell says the charges are false and he's not dropping out of the race, but just look at him:

Hear it directly from me. These allegations are flat false. And I will fight them. pic.twitter.com/bQSlCquD1U

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) April 11, 2026

Disheveled, dirty, greasy and badly in need of a shower. He looks like a guy in the dock.

Does that look like a guy who's going to win this demolition derby? He may hang on and draw a few hundred thousand votes to spite those Democrats who want someone else in the governor's chair. One thing that looks pretty unlikely is that Republicans did this --  if they did, it would be dismissed in the press as "a conspiracy theorry," not revealed in press outlets such as the San Francisco Chronicle.

The theory out there is that this is a typical Democrat playbook trick to thin the crowded Democrat herd in the crowded California gubernatorial race, where two Republicans lead in the top-two primary for the general election, and Democrats are split between several candidates. Ugly rival Katie Porter has been accused of orchestrating this, which she has denied, so nobody really knows for sure how this happened.

But even more mysterious is 'why' -- two factors leap out that give one pause as to why this happened:

One, Swalwell was polling above the other Democrats in the race. 

Swalwell was outperforming every other Democrat and was the closest to Hilton.

So my question is: why? pic.twitter.com/McOIVtMITy

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) April 11, 2026

Why would they thin from the top of the herd instead of the bottom where many are polling in single digits?

Here is the other strange factor -- big dollar donations were rolling in up until the day of the revelations.

Arguing against the theory that there was a high-level Democratic Party op to get Swalwell out of the race at this moment: independent expenditure committees for Swalwell that were funded with 7-figure donations in recent days from powerful Democratic players. (Nobody told them.) pic.twitter.com/XwJzIEA9uJ

— Susan Shelley (@Susan_Shelley) April 11, 2026

 

You can bet that whoever made them is probably pretty steamed right now, and may well tell Swalwell to fight on, making it a good civil war where they all go down and a Republican, either Steve Hilton or Chad Bianco, wins the race, and if the pair of them take the top two slots in early June, there is no doubt it will be a Republican.

But there's another problem for the Democrats way back there in the background that is bound to get louder as time goes on.

People are asking why if Swalwell with all his vileness is unfit to be governor of California, why is he occupying a seat in Congress?

Democrats such as Adam Schiff, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi and other leading lights of that repulsive party have all loudly called on Swalwell to drop out, but not said a word about getting him out of Congress. Why, exactly, should an accused rapist sit in Congress? They threw George Santos out for a lot less.

Rep. Anna Luna, a Florida Republican, has filed a motion for Congress to expel him.

Thus far, no Democrats have joined her. 

Which goes to show how cynical this move is, despite Swalwell deserving everything that is coming to him. Why was he chosen as the Democrat to pitch over the side? They clearly don't care that he's a sex predator, they care to virtue-signal about 'metoo' despite their devotion to this idea being, to say the least, selective. They knew what Swalwell was about, and as Jonathan Turley writes, he was their useful 'monster' but they didn't speak up until now and until it seemed as though it would help their party thin the herd in California as a working theory. 

It’s because they’ve all known for years.

It’s been an open secret.

And I don’t say that as a guess. https://t.co/OWBlHg6iDC

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) April 11, 2026

Cynical, indeed. This could get ugly fast as Democrat-on-Democrat infighting carries on in the next six weeks.

Let's hope they end up a puddle of muck after a bumfight like this one and all the truth eventually comes out about the disgusting doings in that party.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/swalwell_implosion_looks_like_material_to_reveal_an_internal_civil_war.html